Keeping Up Online

In this The Verge article, people are more likely to check their smartphone than they are likely to give in to a cigarette break according to a study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (say that five times fast). I do not smoke or drink (ok, rarely drink) so I can’t say for […]

The tech website I’ve  decided to follow is The Verge. It is a website founded by Joshua Topolsky who used to the the editor-in-chief at popular tech news website Engadget. What I like about this site is that there is a collection of tech news–the newest rumors, product reviews, articles about different gadgets, web shows, […]

I wish I could find the original source for this photo but it came from the official Game of Thrones Twitter account (@gameofthrones). https://twitter.com/#!/ImperialScum/status/165113238806200321/photo/1/large

Chapter two moves on from how to write HTML to the bonuses of blogging. Now blogging, that is way more up my alley. I read blogs daily and although I’ve only kept up a blog for school, but will most likely start keeping one up personally. Briggs writes about how having a blog gets your […]

While the introduction reaffirmed the idea that journalism is changing at the same rate as technology, chapter one reaffirmed that I have absolutely no knowledge of HTML and the inside workings of the Internet. The web programming language known as HTML is as foreign to me as Chinese. The tips Briggs has in his book […]

The introduction of  “Journalism Next” by Mark Briggs simply puts that the state of journalism has not only just changed from the past few decades, but that it will continue to change constantly. As a product of the 90s, my world of journalism as I’ve gotten older saw the end of print of journalism as […]

Not quite the same as page clicks but it’s the equivalent for  college students who live their lives via Facebook status updates. The point is is that our generation is defined by how successful we are online–how many friends we have on Facebook, how many people follow us on Twitter, how many page clicks and followers our […]

Maybe it’s just me, but I think everyone has their own media intake routine. Here’s mine  in a media pyramid form With the exception of The Colbert Report, The Daily Show and The Rachel Maddow Show, the main media I use is all online. Twitter allows me to cover a lot of news by following […]